The Ethel Precht Hope Breast Cancer Walk 2024 Celebrates 20 Years!

The 2024 Ethel Precht Hope Breast Cancer Walk celebrates 20 years this weekend at Lake Charles Event Center – Front Lawn, on Saturday, October 19, 2024. Walk-up registration begins at 7 a.m. and the walk shortly after a quick warm-up 8 a.m. This is a special year and we are again asking the Southwest Louisiana community to show up and show out!

Come out and walk in honor of Mrs. Petcht, in memory of your loved ones, or in celebration of someone who has kicked cancer's butt. Everyone in the community loved Mrs. Precht and she gave everything she could to serve the women in Cameron and Calcasieu Parish needing services, resources, and bra prostheses, even if it was for a tank of gas to get someone to Houston for appointments. A cancer survivor herself, she knew the challenges, the expense, and the loss of breast cancer all too well.

Mrs. Ethel was able to launch the Ethel Precht HOPE Breast Cancer Foundation, Incorporated a non-profit charity that helps ease the financial burden of treatment, transportation issues, prostheses, and other support-related resources to breast cancer patients in both Parishes.

Each year, via her foundation, 100% of proceeds go directly to individuals in the Calcasieu and Cameron Parishes who are going through breast cancer treatment. Today, we carry the torch for her and now walk in her memory as well as those loved ones we lost to this dreadful disease.

Her legacy lives on and the mission to eradicate breast cancer will charge on until we can finally eradicate this disease. Join the fight tomorrow. Below is more info about the annual Ethel Precht Hope Breast Cancer Walk.